The purpose of Emmanuel Lutheran School is to provide a high quality, Christ-centered education. Our educational practices are based on the belief that each child is capable of doing three things: learning, leading by example and serving. Emmanuel Lutheran School is licensed by the Hawaii Council of Private Schools.

Imua Inclusion Preschool is a relationship-based, play-based program where children who are typically developing and children with special needs learn together. Our curriculum emphasizes collaboration among children and adults. Our daily program is infused with a sense of place, honoring diverse cultures and values while celebrating life.

We’ve been loving children for over 70 years! Children are a gift from God and deserve our very best. We are a faith-based preschool with a literacy-based curriculum. Pre-K class is offered to late-born children and older four-year-olds.

KUC Preschool’s curriculum is God-centered and fosters Christian beliefs while integrating art, music, physical and language development, math, science, social studies, and life skills into the daily program.

Kansha Preschool

We provide the support, guidance, and tools necessary to engage children’s interests in learning and constructing knowledge based on meaningful experiences. We encourage activities where the actions of children determine the outcomes. Open-ended activities allow children to learn cause-and-effect, and develop analytical skills for problem-solving the “whys” and “what ifs.” Together we learn about our own histories, the people and places that form our community, and how we can all make positive contributions to our island home and the world.

The Pūnana Leo initiates, provides for and nurtures various Hawaiian language environments, and we find our strength in our spirituality, and love of our language, our people, our land, and of knowledge.

Kamehameha Schools strives to nurture the values of aloha, mālama, and kuleana while continuing to provide a learning environment that is safe, educational, culturally-grounded, enjoyable and enriching.

St. Anthony Preschool provides a Catholic education enabling students to develop positive attitudes and habits for growing, living, and learning. We share a campus with the St. Anthony grade school, middle school, and high school.

Your keiki will use all 5 senses in activities which encourage them to discover, explore, share and learn. We enjoy circle time activities with reading, singing, and dancing. We provide what your child needs to be successful in their next level of education.

Head Start provides Early Childhood development services to families that meet the federal poverty guidelines and selection criteria. Children who will be 3 or 4 years old by July 31, 2018, are eligible for enrollment. Beginning February 1, 2018, the Head Start Program will be accepting applications for the 2018/19 school year.

M.E.O. Kahi Kamali`i Infant/Toddler Center

Percentage receiving tuition assistance: Varies; based on income eligibility

Accreditation: None

AM/PM Care: 7:30am – 4:00pm, or 8:00am – 4:30pm

Potty Training Not Required

Parent / legal guardian to complete an application at the MEO Early Childhood Services office, between 7:30am – 3:30pm, Monday – Friday. For more information, please contact the MEO Early Childhood Services department at 249-2988.

Wailuku Hongwanji Mission

144 Kaniela Street, Wailuku, HI 96793

244-9545

Ages: 3-5 years

School enrollment: 62

Teacher/Student Ratio: 1:10

Tuition: $700 per month

Percentage receiving tuition assistance: 35%

Accreditation: NAEYC

AM/PM Care: 7:15am – 5:00pm

Potty Training Required

We provide a positive, nurturing, challenging, and developmentally appropriate learning environment for each student to develop into a caring, self-fulfilled and compassionate person. Breakfast, lunch, and snack included.

Wailuku Union Preschool

327 South High Street, Wailuku 96793

242-5950

Ages: 2-6 Years

School enrollment: 32

Teacher/Student: 1:7

Tuition: $775/month

Percentage receiving tuition assistance: 90%

Accreditation: NAEYC

AM/PM Care: 7:00am – 4:45pm

Potty Training: Required

Wailuku Union Preschool provides a Christian learning environment that minister to the needs of the whole child. This includes a loving, positive, supportive, safe and healthy environment that encourages the growth of your child in all areas of development.

Kihei

Children’s Garden

2140 Kanakanui Rd, Kihei, HI 96753

879-8786

Ages: 2-6 years

School enrollment: 41 per day

Teacher/Student Ratio: Average 1:7 (varies depending on age)

Tuition: Varies

Percentage receiving tuition assistance: 10%

Accreditation: none

AM/PM Care: 7:30am – 5:30pm

Potty Training Not Required

Children’s Garden is a quality non-profit preschool/daycare that emphasizes academics and social and communication skills and offers language, creative movement, and reading programs. We nurture children with love, care, guidance, patience, and understanding.

We are a church-based preschool actively teaching the Bible and sharing God’s love. We provide a nurturing Christian environment and a staff that loves working with keiki and guiding them through the learning process. Young children love to learn, that’s why we use the ABEKA preschool program. Our 3–5 year olds become students naturally as they are exposed to phonics, numbers, art, poetry and the Bible.

Little Monk Seal Montessori is a small Preschool and Kindergarten offering Authentic Montessori Education on Maui. Little Monk Seal has a highly academic focused program emphasizing stewardship and giving back to the community. It also has a unique Little Monk Seal First Responders program that allows the children to participate hands on at the beach in helping to protect our Critically Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal. This is a rare and exciting way that the children get to help protect our ecosystem!

MHOK’s Montessori curriculum and environment empowers each child to develop to his/her highest potential. Children are introduced to the joy of learning at an early age and provided with a structured framework in which intellectual and social discipline goes hand-in-hand.

We incorporate necessary aspects of your child’s development during these formative years. Through our school atmosphere, outstanding staff and well-planned curriculum we prepare your child for Kindergarten and a lifelong love of learning!

Haleakala Waldorf School provides a developmentally based curriculum. Academics are taught through artistic and creative experience. Students learn to love learning, to express their innate creativity in thinking as well as in doing, to live with reverence for life, to serve as self-directed, engaged members of the greater community and are prepared to thrive in the global 21st century.

Carden Academy of Maui is committed to educating the whole child through a balance of academic excellence. character development, and enrichment through the arts in a nurturing, small classroom setting.

“I want children to learn and to enjoy learning. Life is a joy, so should be learning.” – Mae Carden

Kamehameha Schools strives to nurture the values of aloha, mālama, and kuleana while continuing to provide a learning environment that is safe, educational, culturally-grounded, enjoyable and enriching.

A Joyful Child Mixed Age Kindergarten

Educating Children and Families Through the Inspiration of Waldorf Education

The curriculum we offer supports the developing capacities of the young child through nourishment of the senses via a rich use of oral language, kinesthetic activities, art, music, gardening, baking, imaginative play, free play, and puppetry. All of these activities are engaged in through play, song, verse, rhyme and imitation of teachers who are worthy of imitation and who hold the children in the highest regard.

At the Makawao Drop in Center each day is different with a fun curriculum designed to foster learning through play. In the sparkling clean, brand new classroom, kids get to do art projects based on curriculum themes, storytime, free play with a broad range of fun toys, and music. Classes are 2.5 hours 2 days/week.

Makawao Hongwanji Preschool

223 Hiwalani Lp., Pukalani, HI 96768

572-7883

Ages: 3-5 years

School enrollment: 42

Teacher/Student Ratio: 1:9

Tuition: Call for rates

Percentage receiving tuition assistance: N/A

Accreditation: Licensed by Dept. of Human Services

AM/PM Care: 7:15am – 5:00pm, or 7:15am – 2:30pm

Potty Training Required

We are sponsored by Makawao Hongwanji Mission as an outreach to the needs of the community. We are located in a quiet neighborhood of Pukalani.

Our mission is to provide a Christ-centered education that is biblically based and is committed to academic excellence, biblical morality, integrity, church involvement, and patriotism – all to the glory of God.

Kamehameha Schools strives to nurture the values of aloha, mālama, and kuleana while continuing to provide a learning environment that is safe, educational, culturally-grounded, enjoyable and enriching.

Roots School Mission: Through experiential and academic learning, we encourage students to integrate creativity, critical thinking, integrity and compassion to engage collaboratively and realize their potential as unique, fulfilled individuals.

Holy Innocents Preschool has a long-held reputation for quality early childhood education. Daily classes are held year-round behind Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in its Parish Hall and courtyard, complete with tree house.

Maui Prep is celebrating its 13 years as an independent, secular, day and boarding college preparatory school in Napili. Character Education is central to the school’s mission, as it focuses on “10 Commitments to Living Aloha,” Community Service, and an emphasis on personal growth over standardized achievement.

Sacred Hearts Preschool

Celebrating 155 years of education on the west side. Sacred Hearts School is proud to carry on the legacy of excellence that is evident in the quality of students graduating from our middle school. We develop Kids with character!

We believe that each child is made in the image of the infinitely loving and creative God. To this end, we are here to help the children develop their full physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual potentials.

Tutu and Me aims to meet the developmental needs of young children and to support the grandparents and caregivers. Teaching teams, comprised of early childhood educators, travel to pre-selected communities where they set up, conduct, and facilitate the program.